Have you ever added cover art to a song using Windows Media Player? How about multiple files at the same time? Give it a try.
I had the misfortune of having to do this yesterday. Windows Media Player has this smart functionality built in that will allow you to update metadata, including cover art, from the Internet. This requires sending data over the Internet to Microsoft, which I had disabled in my privacy settings. Even after temporarily enabling it I couldn’t use the feature because access was blocked via the proxy/firewall.
I clicked all around with multiple files selected and couldn’t get anywhere that looked like I could update cover art. I looked at file properties. I finally had to resort to searching the Internet for details on how to accomplish this. Even then the first results were to use the automatic update feature mentioned above.
I read that you have to right click on a single file, go to the Advanced Tag Editor, select the Images tab, browse to a file, and select the image type from a drop down list. This must be repeated for every file. And to be honest, It didn’t reliably save the images for me: I was pressing Apply before OK and then re-checking the file just to make sure the image was saved in it. I would guess I had a < 50% success rate.
Have you ever done the same in iTunes? You drag an image to the Cover Art area for a selected/playing file. Multiple files? Select them and select Get Info from the File or context menu; drag an image to the metadata info window and click OK. Pretty darn simple. And iTunes has the “auto get album artwork” feature as well, to get the artwork from the iTunes Store.
I think I’m done. Thanks.